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Vetta Chamber Music and Rosemary Georgeson source stories from the ocean in Land and Sea

The musical organization remounts Seasons of the Sea, which features words by Indigenous artist and storyteller Georgeson in a mixed program

MUSICJanet SmithNovember 6, 2024Vetta Chamber Music, Rosemary Georgeson, Joan Blackman

Vetta Chamber Music honours nature's stories in Land and Sea, November 15 to 18

Featured works include “The Raven Conspiracy” by Yellowknife’s Carmen Braden and “Seasons of the Sea” by Rosemary Georgeson and Jeffrey Ryan

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 18, 2024Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

Violist David Harding joins Vetta Chamber Music for its season-opening concert

The artist felt at home the first time he played the viola at age 16

MUSICGail JohnsonSeptember 23, 2024Vetta Chamber Music, David Harding, Joan Blackman, Jeffrey Ryan

Vetta Chamber Music opens its 2024-25 season with Liminal Spaces, September 27 to 30

On the program that explores interconnected forces are works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Vancouver-based composer Jeffrey Ryan

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 3, 2024Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music, Jeffrey Ryan

String quartets, French composers, and Land and Sea, as Vetta Chamber Music unveils 2024-25 season

Beethoven, Mozart, and Vancouver’s own Jeffrey Ryan are included on the roster

MUSICJanet SmithAugust 21, 2024Vetta Chamber Music, Joan Blackman

Internationally renowned pianist Angela Cheng joins Vetta Chamber Music players for a musical conversation with old friends

Program of Schubert and Mozart masterpieces will see her join hands with her husband, pianist Alvin Chow, and reunite with an old Edmonton Youth Orchestra colleague

MUSICJanet SmithApril 23, 2024Vetta Chamber Music, Angela Cheng, piano, chamber music

Vetta Chamber Music presents Schubertiade with Angela Cheng, April 26 to 29

Final concert of the season features a special performance of Schubert’s piano duet Fantasia in F minor with Cheng’s husband Alvin Chow

MUSICStir VancouverMarch 27, 2024Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music, Spring 2024

Ariel Barnes revisits "transformative journey" of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, with Vetta Chamber Music

Unique program travels from pain and tumult of tango through to transcendence

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 4, 2024Vetta Chamber Music, Spring 2024

Vetta Chamber Music hosts spring program Music for Eternity from March 8 to 11

Fourth concert of the season explores concepts of time with compositions by Brahms, Messiaen, and Mackey

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 7, 2024Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

Vetta Chamber Music gets unabashedly romantic in Music of the Heart

The organization’s upcoming piano-focused concert is all about emotion

MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 18, 2024Vetta Chamber Music, piano

Pianist Talisa Blackman leads Vetta Chamber Music concert Music of the Heart, January 26 to 29

Toronto-based artist will be joined by cellist Zoltan Rozsnyai and violinist Joan Blackman for two romantic trios

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 4, 2024Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

Joan Blackman leads Vetta Chamber Music in kicking off third annual mentorship program

Five mentors guide six emerging artists through rehearsals, workshops, and performances

MUSICJanet SmithNovember 27, 2023Vetta Chamber Music

Vetta Chamber Music showcases Serenades & Divertimenti mentorship program concert, December 1 to 4

Program combining emerging professionals and seasoned chamber musicians features works by Mozart, Bartók, and Dvořák

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 2, 2023Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

Life's a Beach launches Vetta Chamber Music's 2023-24 season, October 13 to 15

Performance spotlights quintet by composer-pianist Amy Beach, a female trailblazer in American music

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICJanet SmithOctober 11, 2023Vetta Chamber Music

Vetta Chamber Music opens new season with Life’s a Beach, October 13 to 15

Concert features famed American composer Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet in F sharp minor, Op. 67

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 14, 2023Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

From symphony orchestra to chamber ensembles to prison outreach, cellist Henry Shapard finds meaning as a musician

The youngest VSO member is about to make his Vetta Chamber Music debut with a Benjamin Britten solo

See Vetta Chamber Music’s Wartime Masterpieces in concert, April 28 to May 1

Program will feature music from composers whose lives were impacted by war

MUSICStir VancouverApril 12, 2023Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

From the Beach Boys to Bach, Vetta Chamber Music thinks outside the box in Joan and Joe, March 3 to 6

The upcoming concert features Vetta’s artistic director Joan Blackman performing with the Joe Trio

Vetta Chamber Music presents Joan and Joe from March 3 to 6

Artisan gifts from local makers include serene ceramics, hand-loomed textiles, and much more

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 13, 2023Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about Vetta Chamber Music’s Romanticism Unleashed

The concert features guest artists from Barcelona: violinist Kai Gleusteen and pianist Catherine Ordronneau

MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 20, 2023Vetta Chamber Music, chamber music, Joan Blackman

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